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常人

chángrén

ordinary person; average person

A plain person stands beside a heavy stone
Memory picture

Characters in this word

常 cháng

Strokes
11
Radical
巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
Made of
尚 still, yet 巾 cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

人 rén

Strokes
2
Radical
人 — man, person
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 这种训练强度已远超常人能够承受的范围。 Zhè zhǒng xùnliàn qiángdù yǐ yuǎn chāo chángrén nénggòu chéngshòu de fànwéi. This level of training intensity has far exceeded what an ordinary person could endure.
  • 他的记忆力超出常人,看过一遍就能背下来。 Tā de jìyìlì chāochū chángrén, kàn guo yí biàn jiù néng bèi xiàlai. His memory exceeds that of ordinary people; he can recite something after reading it once.
  • 做这样的工作需要常人没有的耐心。 Zuò zhèyàng de gōngzuò xūyào chángrén méiyǒu de nàixīn. Doing this kind of work needs patience that ordinary people don't have.

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